CURATORIAL APPROACH
“giving the situation the power to make us think” (Isabelle Stengers)
The curatorial practice of Florence Cheval aims at questioning and experimenting around the possible articulations between artistic/curatorial practices and other fields and practices, from an inclusive, intersectional and non-binary perspective.
Since 2017, she curates a project initiated by the research and production platform Jubilee (Vincent Meessen, Eleni Kamma, Vermeir & Heiremans…) called Caveat, which explores the contract as a tool to reflect and act on the ecology of the artistic field. Caveat develops through a series of commissions involving a.o. artists Sofia Caesar, Joséphine Kaeppelin, Patrick Bernier & Olive Martin, Agence, Stijn Van Dorpe…
Parallel to that, she is currently elaborating a collective research project around problematics of display from a feminist and intersectional perspective.
She actively takes part in Engagement, an artist-led movement tackling sexual harassment, sexism and power abuse in the Belgian arts field.

BIOGRAPHY
Thomas Patier is an independent curator. Currently head of exhibitions at CRAC Alsace, Centre rhénan d’art contemporain, he holds a master’s degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard, New York, 2018). Since 2016 he has held research and editorial positions at the University of California, San Diego, the SITElines biennial (SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico), TEOR/éTica (San José, Costa Rica) and the online journal aCCeSsions.org, and co-organized exhibitions at Glassbox (Paris), The Kitchen (New York), International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP, New York), Hessel Museum of Art (New York), Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts (Shanghai) and Longtang (Zurich). His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and GalleryTalk, among others.